American - Activist | December 7, 1928 -
A very large majority of the U.S. population is in favor of establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba and has been for a long time with some fluctuations. And even part of the business world is in favor of it, too. But the government won't allow it.
Noam Chomsky
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The U.S. is off the spectrum in religious commitment.
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The Democrats have pretty much given up on the white working class. That would require a commitment to economic issues, and that's not their concern.
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The Occupy movement did create spontaneously communities that taught people something: you can be in a supportive community of mutual aid and cooperation and develop your own health system and library and have open space for democratic discussion and participation. Communities like that are really important.
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Up until the First World War, when people turned anti-German, Germany had been described by American political scientists as the model of democracy.
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A tremendous amount of the entrepreneurial initiative, if you want to call it that, comes from the dynamic state sector on which most of the economy relies to socialize costs and risks and privatize eventual profit. And that's achieved by, if you like, advertising.
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Clinton himself acted in ways which increased the threat of terror.
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When Rumsfeld gets up on television and says we have definitive intelligence that al Qaeda is working with Iraq, how is an ordinary citizen supposed to react? They won't tell you the evidence, and when anyone asks, they say, 'Well, you know: It's secret.'
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Remember, weapons of mass destruction don't mean missiles.
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If the United States loses the economic weapons of control, it is very much weakened.
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Unlike Europe, China can't be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they've been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don't see any need to.
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The United States is afraid of China; it is not a military threat to anyone and is the least aggressive of all the major military powers.
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